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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 43: visit to New Orleans and admission to Fortress Monroe. (search)
his skill to support the sinking frame which had borne up so bravely, but nothing seemed to give relief. I went to Washington to gain a personal interview with the President, with whom, though we had been in the same city at intervals for fifteereat influence with Mr. Stanton, and had come to beg my active aid for the release of Mr. Davis. She asked me to go to Washington with her, but that, I assured her, was impolitic; I would go alone, ascertain the prospect, and report to her. She was om Mr. McCulloch, on his way from Fortress Monroe, that she could rely on his aid in the matter. I went immediately to Washington, saw Mr. McCulloch, and told him that I had come to see Stanton about the release of Mr. Davis. Mr. McCulloch was thundry as one of Mr. Davis's bondsmen. It was decided that Mr. Charles O'Conor, one of Mr. Davis's counsel, should come to Washington and arrange the terms. Reporting the result of my interview to Mrs. Davis, it was arranged that William Prescott Smith
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 79: General Sherman's accusations. (search)
it charge made. The following account of the presentation of General Sherman's letter to the United States Senate appeared in the public prints, and one of the captions is quoted here: No Scapegoat Wanted. The South Responsible, not President Davis. Continuation of the Debate in the United States Senate on the Resolution to Print Senator Sherman's Historical Papers-Senators Vance and Brown Stand by their Record-General Sherman's Mendacity Thoroughly Exposed-The Resolution Passed.-Washington, January 13th.-In the Senate, at ten o'clock, on motion of Senator Hawley, his resolution to call upon the President for copies of the papers filed in the War Department by General Sherman, as a reply to certain strictures of Mr. Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States, was taken up. Senator Vance said that as the Senate would probably pass this resolution and place on its record an unofficial paper by General William T. Sherman, which makes certain statements abou
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 80: General Joseph E. Johnston and the Confederate treasure. (search)
nderstanding between us all, before you left Washington, that as soon as the excitement subsided a lnd I saw Moses putting it in a warehouse in Washington before I left there. I also directed him toder charge of the cavalry to convoy it to Washington, Ga. The party left for Washington that night, and stopped for breakfast a few miles from Washington. At our breakfast halt, when the road was taow before me and reads as follows, viz.: Washington, Ga., May 4, 1865. M. H. Clark, Esq., is hehe left. General Breckinridge arrived in Washington, Ga., an hour or so after President Davis leftrs and gentlemen; and that when they reached Washington with the train fair payments should be made.d tell what would happen before they reached Washington, there was no good reason for delay. Genn reloaded, and the route was taken up to Washington, Ga. The boys told me they got about twenty-sid to each soldier. I was told by someone at Washington to draw that amount, but was too much engage[18 more...]
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 83: General Ransom's reminiscences of Mr. Davis. (search)
him as a friend, and he responded as follows: On July 5, 1856, I first met Mr. Davis. He was then Secretary of War, and I a lieutenant of cavalry visiting Washington for the purpose of marrying my first wife, a young lady resident in that city and an intimate friend of Secretary and Mrs. Davis. I had been in the city a few ough a life as full of extreme vicissitude as falls to the lot of man. During the exciting period of Kansas Troubles, in the autumn of 1856, I was again in Washington, and happened to be in company with Mr. Davis and other prominent men at a social gathering. The subject of the dispersion by Colonel E. V. Sumner, of the Firs and some other gentlemen, advanced to me, and after congratulations and compliments, said in words nearly as follows: If we had had this regiment at Manassas, Washington would have been ours. It is well known that the Confederate army, at the battle of the first Manassas, was without cavalry, excepting an irregular company or t
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